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USA • 2009 • 90m •
  • Directed by: Corbin Bernsen. • Starring: David Moscow, Dan Lauria, Bill Moseley, Corbin Bernsen, Haley Pullos, Patricia Tallman, Larry Drake, Navid Negahban, Jeanne Cooper, Federico Dordei, Susan Ruttan, Anthony Ray Parker, Jason Davis. • Music by: Brandon McCormick, Mike Post.     Radio Host, Logan Burnhardt, starts off his show with off-beat questions such as the whereabouts of the Taj Mahal, and why it is only photographed from the front. With listeners calling in on a variety of issues, he soon becomes aware that terrorists have planted chemical bombs in stadiums and crowded areas that make people violent. He subsequently asks his colleague to travel home to ensure that his wife, Gabbi, and child are safe - not knowing that terrorists will soon take over the building and hold him and other colleagues hostage and force them to make a live broadcast of their real agenda.
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This is because, you know, there is secret zombie-virus developed in US labs. (Please ignore the fact the US stopped developing biological weapons in sixties, whereas bioweapon labs in Iraq and Lybia have been working on their programs until recently. The US labs are ALWAYS the problem, ever.) Of course, even if such substance would be developed in US labs, you would still have to steal enough of it to perform multiple attacks or to cultivate it which would be probably very hard to impossible for any Middle eastern terrorist. But never worry, no brain has been damaged by realistic thinking during production of this movie. Simply blame the US government project as usual so we can continue this "thrill ride".
Please don't expect too much action. Some folks run around in dark trying attack others, turning them instantly into the zombies. But this movie is mostly about sitting on the ass and thinking aloud about nonsense of paranoia. (Yes, it IS seriously bizarre given the situation.) The characters in the radio station are bunch of wimps, they seem not be able to form any reasonable measure: There is no defensive plan, there is no realistic combat, they are even not able to lock the doors or block them effectively. The action scenes are really laughable. The most hilarious is the "elevator fight" where glass wearing nerd fights the zombie - security guard who is approximately two times as big and three times as heavy and WINS bare handed! This is NOT because he is nerd Rambo, but the security guard seems to be too inept (at least at that very moment). There are two persons in the radio station yet they are not able to incapacitate kill the one terrorist even when he seems to collapse under the exposition to the virus. They spend some fun time discussing bad US policy instead.
The only really hard core person here is the wife of the moderator - she can kill bigger and stronger virus-laden man with a glass shard bare handed. This is specnaz class action - I seriously doubt if this can be really done by untrained person. I think even Rambo would use some protection for his hands before using glass shards. But I do guess this was humanistic gun free home so there was really no alternative.
The final scene is full of totally pathetic declamations about the fate of human race. I ended up watching this train wreck of "humanistic propaganda" laughing aloud. Seriously, you will not find so many such stupid movies even in communistic propaganda cinema!
Review by the_wolf_imdb from the Internet Movie Database.
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